Solar, Space, and AI: Are Orbital Data Centers Real or Hype?
Elon Musk has floated an eye‑catching goal: ramp solar manufacturing to around 100 gigawatts per year, roughly twice today’s total US solar installations, with the aim of powering data centers on Earth and in space. The big idea is that AI will be constrained less by chips and more by electricity, so owning a huge,…